Date Build: May, Friday 6th - Saturday 7th, 2022
FAMILY INFORMATION:
Father: Jose
Age: 38 years old
Profession: bricklayer
Salary Weekly: $ 125 USD
Mother: Rosalba
Age: 38 years old
Profession: housewife
CHILDREN
Name: Oliver - Age: 11 years old.
Name: Edith - Age: 7 years old.
Name: Kendrick - Age: 3 years old.
Name: Nazly - Age: 1 years old.
TIME IN TIJUANA: 4 years
Letter from the family:
We will share with you about our life and hope that you will be blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ. I am from the state of Oaxaca and my husband is from Guerrero. We were asked to sincerely share our story.
We met in the USA where we had our first son. I know that from there we suffered a lot because my husband drank and maybe thought that nothing could happen to him. One day he was deported and I was pregnant with my second daughter. Because of the advice of a specific person I took the poor decision to not allow my daughter to be born in the USA..
We went to live in Oaxaca where we suffered a lot. Sometimes it made us think and say “Why am I like this, it isn’t worth it to live.” But after that comes the commitment and the great love from our children. They are the ones who give you the strength to keep moving forward. We were hoping to be reunited with my husband but in this time he drank a lot and it made us feel that we didn’t matter to him even though he said we did; his actions said the opposite. My kids had a lot of needs in nutrition, clothing, shoes because apart from his drinking there was not much work. I was waiting to give birth to my third son. I couldn’t endure so much need that my kids were suffering. I love them so much. My parent weren’t around so I felt a deep loneliness in my heart.
I met the Lord when I was in the USA and I always asked Papa God that he would help my husband to be different because I never wanted my family to be destroyed. The most important thing was that my kids were not in my hometown where I feel there are more vices where kids can fall into drugs. I asked God over and over for us to escape from there to get here (Tijuana) where there are more opportunities and the most important of all that we teach them about the word of God.
Sometimes I think that more people would say “I don’t think people are going to build your house because your have a kid who was born in the USA,” but I believe that even though we have one child who was born in the USA, this is the moment for us to see for our child and his childhood the most important more than in their heart they will carry all the love to give to their families in the future. I know that I believe in God and His mercy and that all the needs that we have we can overcome and I hop that one day my children can be used like you guys to bless other people just like us, how we need it now. I am expecting my fifth baby and I have to ask forgiveness to God because at first I said I didn’t want to have another baby because I didn’t want the baby to suffer like the others have. But if God blessed me with another one He knows, I hope. When we meet each other and you see our home that God has given us and that I give thanks to God for but I think that my kids deserve something more sometimes they ask us, “mom, when can we we have something for us and why don’t we go out together?” And we can only say that some day we may have something beter. They ask us to have a car because we can’t always go out as a family together. We don’t always have what we need to give them everything because my husband’s salary doesn’t stretch that far. Regardless, we are here together. Thank you for reading these lines about our life even though so many things and so many moments of sadness are missing, like the sicknesses that we had, a moment where it felt like we were going to lose one of my children with that sickness and also having no money but thanks to God he is still here with a lot of Ned but with a great love of his parents and our God. Thank you to everyone and I hope that we will be blessed as you bless each of the families. It matters to all the children, whether they are born in the USA or not. Thank you Homes of Hope. Sincerely, the Ojendiz Arzola family